L'insolent (1973)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Jean-Claude Roy

Writers:

Jacques Risser (dialogue)
Jacques Risser (novel)

Release Date:

25 January 1973 (France)

Genre:

Action

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Based On Novel

Cast

Henry Silva	...	Emmanuel Ristack dit 'L'insolent'
André Pousse	...	Milan
Philippe Clay	...	Dargnac
Georges Géret	...	Marco
Robert Dalban	...	Roger Turquand
Yves Afonso	...	Petit René
Sabine Glaser	...	Une de Mai
Jacques Bernard	...	Débauché
Michel Fortin	...	Fangio
Jean Franval	...	Le commissaire
Louis Lalanne
Henri Lambert	...	Gaspard
Bernard Musson	...	La Fouine
Fred Personne	...	Le Pecore
Pierre Raffo

Also Known As:

Deadly Sting (USA) (video title)
The Insolent (UK)
The Killer (USA) (video title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

Tanagra Productions

Soundtrack:

L'insolent

A gem

I think this is the best film Jean-Claude Roy ever made. It reminds fondly the Lautner-Audiard films of the late 60s-early 70s, with the same team of legendary actors : André Pousse, Georges Géret, Dalban, Philippe Clay... It's such a pleasure to see them together ! That film shouldn't be so underrated - in fact, I think it's simply completely unknown, and that's a real shame, because due to its cynicism, its cast, its humor and its music (Bernard Gérard stands here at the heaven of European funk-masters alongside with Piero Umiliani), it stands the comparison with Lautner's works, although it looks - and actually WAS - really cheaper. If you can, prefer the French version, for its clever dubbing of Henry Silva's voice (made by an American actor whose name I can't remember living at the time in Paris), because in English you don't have any equivalent to the inimitable voice of André Pousse.